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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-03-02
ECKERT'S
BARBER SHOP zBATH ROONS.
AT THE
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Hot and Cold Baths at all reasonable hours.
Clean Rooms, Tubs and Towels.
Everything New aud
First-Class.
Good Workmen in the Barber shop.
PUBLICATION NOTICE

STATE OF KANSAS,
BARRIER COUNTY.
In the Probate Court in and for said county
and state
In the msttero of the estate Of David St;th, de-
ceased.
TN PURSUANCE of an order of the above
i named court, notice is hereby given that
of David Stith, deceased, have, this, 10Th day of
February, A. d., 1857, filed their petition for the
sale of the following described real estate of
said deceased, and all the right title and inter
ing situate in said county and state, sub
1cct TO the payment of debts of said estate,
tO-wit:
Lot number thirty-one (31, Second avenue
west, In the corporate limits of the city of Med
lcine Lodge, In the ira It of land known as
Stolp's addition to the city of Medicine Lodge.
Kansas, the same being owned In fee simple by
said deceased.
Also the undivided half interest in lot Seven
teen 40, Washington avenue, east, in the orig
inal townsite of Medicine Lodge.
Also the undivided One-fOurth % interest in
all of the following tracts and parcels of land,
to-wit: Lots numbered twelve, fourteen, six-
teen, eighteen, twenty. Twenty-Five twenty
six, twenty-eight, thirty. thirty-two thrty-fou,
thirty six thirty-eight, forty, forty-six, forty
eight, fifty, hfty-twO, fifty-fOur and fifty-siX
IL, Il, IT, Is, ~, % 26, %, 30, ~ a. 49, 3S 40
~, 4S, 80, 81, 81 and So on north Main street
in HartzelPs addition to the city of Medicine
Lodge, Barber county, state of Kansas.
The said petition will lie heard by and before
the Hon. III. ii. Hardy, probate judge in and
for HARDER county, Kansas, at his Office. in the
day of March, A. D., 1857, at 10 O'Clock a. IN. of
that day.
CHARLES Fl. ELDRED,
MARY J. STITH,
Administrators of the estate OF David Stith,
BRAND s LONG, US for Ad mrs 30
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-03-02
KANSAS Is 4 STATE.

Kansas Is attracting the attention of
eastern capitalists more and more every
day. This becomes a proven fact by
the increasing number of visitors to the
state during this season of the year.
During the fall and winter seasons of
the year, persons who contemplate maxi
ing the western country their home,
look around for selection to suit them,
and Kansas is becoming the attractive
point above all others for such persons
TO settle in. Kansas lands have no
equal IN fertility Of soil iE the United
States, and persons on the lookout for
homes, are not slow to notice that bet
ter crops are grown on farms i'm Kan
sas that cost from 81 TO $40 an acre
than there are i'm the far east OH land
that cost from 500 to $40 an acre.
These persons from the east also notice
that the crops in Kansas are grown
with less that One-half the labor neces-
sary to grow crops in the east. The
healthy climate, the good water, tie
excellent building rock. and the mex
haustible veins of coal that underlie the
upper strata of the earth's surface in
Kansas. are also powerful attractives
i'm causing people who have once visited
Kansas to return again; but above all,
the herds of fat cattle seen roaming Ov-
er the plains of Kansas. are the most
powerful inducements for eastern peO-
pie to settle in Kansas These, they
look at with establishment, and wonder
why an OK can not growa as large on land
that cost 500 per acre, with big bank
barn to shelter him, and a stately man
sion for his owner to live in, as he does
on 50 land in Kansas without shelter,
while his owner, with his pockets stuff
ell with greenbacks, sits in dugout.
Truly the cause of this as well as many
other satisfactory results are inexplain-
able, even by Kansas people, and they
do not search after scientific explaina-
lions, but are content to believe what
their eyes behold, the same as they be-
lieve the inexplainable fact that the
germ of an acorn becomes n tree.-WIl-
son (Kansas) Echo.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-03-02
WHIT STATrE Is Ii

Under the above head the st. Louis
Republican says: kansas is probably
the most prosperous state in the union.
II has had a succession of good crops.
II has sprung up in the scale of agricul-
tural states to position very near the
top"
Thanks. But what state is any nearer
the top? Let us take the National
Bureau of Agriculture for 1888.
Is 1T Missouri? Kansas raised H.
$4,000 bushels more corn than Mis-
souri,.
Is it Illinois? Kansas raised IS .eO7. :
1S6 bushels more of corn; 4,7OI, 100 BUSH
els more Of wheat, and Is, 725, 1884 bushels
more Of oats than Illinois.
Is 1t Iowa? Kansas raised SIG. 900
bushels more corn than Iowa
is it NebFaskaI Nebraska produced
lOl ,27S, 800 bushels Of corn-a big corn
crop, but Kansas raised l72, 800 ,OOO
bushels; 1921 100 bushels in favor of
Kansas.
Is it Texas? Kansas raised 100 600.
OOO bushels more corn than Texas.
Pass on Texas.
Perhaps IL is Minnesota? Kansas
raised just l57 ,s75, 100 bushels Of corn
more than Minnesota. NextI
Is IL DakotaY She is not a wheat
producing state, but when the wheat
dance 10 called she waltzes in with 49,
l2S.lO0 bushels. But when Kansas
raises 25.Sl5,I0O. Dakota gets tired.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-03-02

Referring to the planting of trees on
the Kansas prairies, and its effects ON
climate, Web Wilder says: This ire
mendOusievO'ution has already changed
some 2OO,OOO acres of dry, sun-baked
land, cracked aud assured high prairie
INTO moist and shaded woodland, tie
home of birds and cattle, and the par
ents Of millions Of brooks and creeks.
In fair stand UP fight we have whip
ped the climate and driven it bowling
fIom the field. II vents its helish rage
On the border in cyclones, twisters and
water spouts; but the cyclone must go.
The same enterprise and gallant spirit
that drove the rufIian, the guerrilla,
and the town burner from Kansas will
also speedily abolish the storm ficnd-
his natural and brutal ally"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-03-02
NO-MANSLAND.

The following is the full text Of the
house bill to open up No-Man's Land to
settlement as 1t was amended in the
senate and passed by that body:
That the laws Of the United States,
except those providing for presumption,
timber culture and desert land entries
of the public lands, are hereby extended
over the unOrganized territory south Of
the states of Kansas and Colorado, and
between the Indian territory and the
territory of New Mexico, and north
of Texas, known as the public land
strip, and that for the purpose of the
execution Of said laws, all that portion
OF the state of Kansas lying south of
the 9Th standard parallel, south and
west of the line between ranges 80 and
81 west Of the 9th principal meridian,
and the tract of unorganiZed territory,
known as the public land strip afore-
said, be and are hereby constituted a
new and separate land district, TO be
called the Cimarron land district. and
the subdivisional lines of townships in
said public land strip may be surveyed
under current appropriations for the
surveying service, the work to be done
under the direction and supervision of
the secretary of the interior. and said
public land strip is hereby attached to
the judicial district of Kansas until the
establishment of civil government in
said territory. Lands therein may be
entered for town site purposes, for the
several use and benefit of the occupants
of such town sits by such trustee OF
trustees as may be named by the secre-
tary of the interior for that purpose
such entries to be made under the pro-
visions of section 1887 of the revised
statues as near as may be, and when
such entries shall have been made, the
secretary of the interior shall provide
by regulation for the proper execution
of the trust i'm favor of the inhabitants
of the town sites, including the survey
of the land into lots according TO the
spirit and intent of said section 23S7 OF
the revised statues, whereby the same
result would be reached as though the
entry had been made by county Judge
and the disposal of the lots in such
town site, and the proceeds of the sale
thereof had been prescribed by the leg.
islative authority of a state or territory:
provided, that no more than $40 acres
shall be embraced in one town site en-
try.
Sec. 2. That the president by and
with the advice and consent of the sen
ate shall appoint register and a re-
ceiver Ofpublic moneys for said district,
and said officers shall reside in the
place where said land Office is located
and shall have the same powers and
shall discharge similar duties and re-
ceive the same fees and emOluments as
other officers discharging like duties in
the other land offices in the state of
Kansas.
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About Cotton.


Having raised three crops of Cotton
In Alabama and finding our soil far SUI
perior for any product, 1 planted sew
eral rows last year. The cotton prov
ed successful, far beyond my expecta-
tons, in quantity as we'll as quality.
BY proper cultivation, We can depend
upon one bale Of 500 pounds, to the
acre. Cotton is worth from s to IL
cents per pound. Experienced cotton
raisers from Texas declare that one
acre Of cotton like they have seen on
my place, would yield nearly two bales.
The cultivation of cotton, except the
picking, requires little more work than
corn. The freight on cotton, compared
with corn, is but trifle. Cotton, un-
like other crops, never changes so fast
in the market and is at all times and
everywhere equal to cash. Further
more, where ever cotton is raised, corn
will bring better price. A movement
IS on foot now to buy one hundred
bushels Of cotton seed from Chatauqua
county, Kansas, where over 4O.UOO
worth or cotton was raised last wear.
also to erect a cotton gin and press at
Medicine Lodge. For information call
on or address HENRY burst.
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COPY OF TELEGRAM.
EXCLUSION 10 EANSAS.

Topeka Capital: &c. G.. Coutant. ed
itor of the Garden City Sentinel, ar
rived III this city yesterday, and last
evening he completed arrangements
with the passenger department of the
Santa Fe road TO run eight excursions
to Garden City. The excursions are to
start from points in Kentucky, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. "
Why cannot such excursions be ar
ranged TO come over the Southern Kan
sas railroad into the garden spot of the
west? Think of Sumner, Harper and
Barber counties, all in the highest state
OF cultivation, as compared with the
bleak prairies and sand hills west of
the great bend in the Arkansas river!
Think of sending eight excursions in
to the alkali country west of the Tooth
meridian. when the rich and settled
country of Southern Kansas is yet open
to immigrants
Why show people from the east the
experimental irrigating bitches, tile
unbroken prairies, and the dry plains
west # Dodge CITY, when there is a
modern Garden Of Eden along the line
and at the terminus of the Southern
Kansas railroad?
Think of what an excursion would
see on a trip to Barber county. At
Medicine Lodge they would see a city
of 1000 people which has had solid
and continuous growth for IL years; adj
miIably located commercially; nearly
avprv oitizap fba ahcOI,,ta 0xy,,o, 30 ~.
business and residence property; and in
no case is the property held at an unfair
price. A city that has school houses
and other public buildings sufficient for
its present, and for its future needs.
for some years at least. and consequent
ly a city where taxes are and will con-
tinue to be reasonable; a city that has
never known an era of windy specula-
ton, but where every dollar invested
with ordinary judgment has always
met with a return.
The excursionists would see Barber
county, beautiful county, within 100
miles of several good cities with every
possible requisite of a farming and
stock raising region, and yet where i'm
proved farms may be bought for less
money than raw prairie hundred miles
from n market in some other sections
of Kansas.
The eXcursionists would see we'll
watered country, and it is water that
makes the difference between agricul-
tural failure and success in Kansas.
They would see country travesed by
the Medicine river, Salt Fork, Little
and Big Mule creeks, Turkey and Null
berry, Elm and dozen other splendid
streams. They would see a country
where irrigation is not necessity, and
where farming is not an experiment.
They would see fields which have been
planted in corn for ten years, right
along, dry or wet.
And now comes the remarkable fact
that all this fine, fertile, weil-watered.
well-railrOaded country, demonstrated
success; has plenty of room bogh in town
and country for thousands of people
and millions of money, but has no boom
i'll a speculative sense.
So bring on a dozen excursions to
Barber county. Our hotels can enter
tam them all, and our real estate men
can be relied on TO furnish every man
with a farm.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-03-02

Itmay not be weli-known. but it is
however, a fact. that the wheat that
took the premium at the Philadelphia
exposition in 1875, was raised in south
western Kansas, and not far from the
city of Medicine Lodge-a small trad
ing post for cattle-men at that time.
Mr.. Bucknum IL miles south of Medicine
Lodge. has raised wheat tor FIVE sue
cessive seasons on the same piece of
ground. The largest yield of the five
years being 47l bushels per acre; the
smallest being III 1886, IA bushels per
acre. He has raised on an average,
about q bushels per acre. There is but
little doubt but that the red Gypsum
land in the southern and western por-
ton of Barber county, is the best wheat
producing land in the state.
Barber steps TO the front as wheat
producing county.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-03-02
THE GREA1, WEST,

Our recent sketch of Mr.. Sturgis's
paper upon the cattle-men has drawn
goOd-natured and instructive reply from
correspondent in Nebraska, who
states the case Of the farmer against
the cowboy with great vigor. We are
sorry that, as in the case Of Mr.. Stur-
gis's paper, we can give only an abstract
of our correspondents statement. At
the outset he objects to the airy sweep,
las of a vaquero's lasso," with which
the great tract from the Rio Grande to
British America, and from the Missouri
river to the Sierra Nevada, is described
as the Great American Desert, thinly
grassed, scantily watered, and of ali
arid climate, with great extremes of
temperature. This, says our cores
pOndent, was the conception of this
great region which was current in the
last generation. But he writes from a
point in the western part of 1.-The de-
sert, three hundred miles west of the
Missouri river, in county which last
year showed the highest average yield
of corn per acre of any in the north
west, from Michigan to the Rocky
Mountains. Kansas and Nebraska are
the very heart of 1.-The DESERT" but the
statistics of their fertility sound like
fables. Forty years ago Iowa was the
desert. Twenty years ago it was just
west Of the Missouri. len years more
drove it TO the western half of Kan. and
Nebraska" But the farmer has swift
ly driven before him, until to-day the
Great American Desert exists only on
ancient maps.
Our correspondent raises his eyes as
he writes, and sees fields that last year
produced seventy-five bushels of corn to
the acre. There are millions of such
acres, and the farmer protests against
slandering such land and the rainfall
which produces such crops. He COM
plains that the east knows really very
! little of this new west, or of those who
are making this mythical desert blossom
as the rose. There is Nebraska, for in
stance, which has doubled its popula-
Kansas has now population of thir-
teen hundred thousand people. That
single state in 1.-The desert" built during
the last year, more miles of railroad
than any other state in the union, and
Nebraska was not far behind her.
Good authority In New York asserts
that in the last year twenty per cent of
foreign immigrants arriving in New
York went to Nebraska. This great
current has so flooded the country that
the "homesteader" must push on to
Colorado to find desirable public lands.
The insignificant little town from
which our correspondent writes remit
ted to Washington in the year 1886, to
pay for homestead and presumption of
land, S290,0O0. The ranchman's object
is directly opposed to that of the home
J steader, and our correspondent thinks
that by misrepresentation he has done
as much to retard the settlement Of the
Territory as the Indian. There has
been a bitter conflict, but to-day, be
says, the farmer looks upon the ranch
man and the Indian as Christians looked
upon the impotent giants Pope and Pa
gan. Fencing has been aband Jned, in
deed, but not by the free-will of the
ranchman. 1t was the firmness of the
President that ended lt.-IIarper's
Weekly.
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sHERIFF,s SALE.

STATE OF KANSAS
BARBER COUNTY. o.
In the District Court of Barber county. state
of Kansas.
o. c. Ewart, plaintiff,
versus
c. L. Dunn, Mrs. C. L. Dunn and
Eli Smith, defendants.
pY VIRTUE of an order of sale to me uirec-
- ted, issued out of the District I;Ourt Of
Barber county, state OF Kansas, in the action
above entitled, will, on
SATURDAY, THE I'd DAY OF APRIL.
A. D., 1885,, at o'clock r. m. of said day, Mt the
front door Of the courthouse, in the city of
Medicine Lodge, In said county and state offer
Tor sale. at public auction. to the highest bid
DER, for cash In hand, all of the right title and
interest whatsoever of the said c. l.. Dunn
and Mrs. e. L. Dunn and Eli Smith, in and TO
the following lands and tenements to-wit: The
northwest quarter ca of section No. Ave 90, in
township No. thirty-thrce (33), range No eleven
Gid west, in the county of Barber and state 81
Kansas. taken as the property of the said de-
fendnnts, and To satisfy said order of sale.
Given under my hand this. lst day of March,
A. D., 1887.
CHARLES d. NELSON,
~ Sheriff of Barber County, Kansas.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-03-02

Kansas is slice from the Juciest side
Of the earth. \ few years ago il was q
wilderness. To-day it is the garden of
the world. redolent with the fragrance
Of the orchard and vintage. teeming
with the homes of thrifty people, pulls
ing with the vim and vigor of progress
and mellow with the bloom of an al
most perennial harvest. Last year
Kansas sent TO The east from her over
flowing Store-houses a golden stream OF
grain, filed hundreds of their empty
trains with the choicest of her herds
and fiocks, and, standing on the thresh-
old of this years bounty, she sends
greeting and welcome to half n million
OF their sons who would try their for
t,lnes ca her unbroken prairies. What
Kansas Will be Fifty years hence is be-
You'd the comprehension Of people now
living. -[Chicago journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-03-02
Ths Oats Crop in Barber County.

Oats are especially prolific in Barber
county. These statements will seem
like fables, but we viii not make any
that cannot be verified by men Of high
standing in our county. In 1886, sew
eral fields yielded over 100 bushels TO
the acre. Following are some Of the
farmers who had such yields, who are
reliable men, who may be addressed az
Medicine Lodge: VIM: HOgard, ITO
L. +. Pearson, 10Y: J. G. Durham. 100.
and others we might mention IL SPACE
would admit; but this is enough to
convince the most credulous that Bar
Der Is an oats producing county.
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rueL1csrros NOTICE.

lf1rst published March 2, 1881
STATE OF KANSAS,
BARRIER COUNTY. S.
In the District Court for said county.
MILFORD w. Stamford, Efnsard
Youmans and Charles H. M
dred, partners, under the name
OF Stnndiford. Youmans FL.
Gred, plaintiffs,
vel sus
Willis ii. Peak, defendant
SAID DEFENDANT, Willis H. Peak, WIN
~ take notice that he has been sued in tho
a ars, named court in civil action for the
sum OF Three Hundred and Eighty One Dollars
and Twenty Cents 1881 .sO), with Interest
t9nercon from March 5th. 1885, and that An or
yer OF attachment issued in said cause; that he
must answer the petition filed therein by said
Ps MlhIius, on or before the 18th day of April.
1891, OF said petition will be taken as true and
Jungment TOT plaintiffs in said action for the
SAID sum OF Three Hundred and Eirhty-Ose
Dollars and Twenty Cents tSSsI ON WITH y.er
est thereon from March 8, 1855, and in the AZ.
tachmeut therein granted will he Rendered a.
cordingly, with costs of this action. :.
FRANK HOLMES
BRAND & Long, Attorneys for Piaintiffs'
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-03-02

The grand jury bill, passed by the
house of representative last Saturday
provides that grand jury shall be or
dered by the district judge for at least
two regular terms OF the court in each
year, except in counties having n popu-
Rtion Of less than $4,000, when but one
grand jury n year will be required.
However, on the petition Of 200 tax-pay-
ers. n grand jury may be ordered for each
term of the court.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-03-02

Senator John j. Ingalls,, OF Kansas,
Is now president pro tenn of the United
States senate, having been elected last
week, To ill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Senator Sherman. In
the event Of the death of Mr.. Cleveland,
Mr.. Ingalls, would not be president.
however; the presidential succession
bill providing for the Office being filled
by the secretary of state.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-03-02

Near Easton, Pa, last Saturday. a
party Of boy hunters were run down
10y lightning express train aud six out
of seven were instantly killed. A
binding snow storm was raging, and
as they stepped from one track to an
other, To avoid passing freight train,
they we're struck by tine express.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-03-02

Fearful earthquakes visited Italy
last week, and the loss Of lives IS esti-
mated at 1000. At Nice. $1,000 people
left the city. At Genoa business is en-
tirely suspended, and ~, 900 people have
fled from there. The principal damage
WAS done at Bajardo. Diano Marina,
Bressano, and in the province of Porto
Maurice COO were killed.
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Land once at Larned. Kans.. Feb II. lssy.

Notice is hereby given that the following.
named settler has fled notice OF his Intention
to make final proof in support OF his claim
and that said proof will be made before HI
Kansas, on April II. 1887, viz: Isaiah o. Con.
ner, ID ; 1887, for the Sc = sc \ sec q. s-w
s-w section "a. and n y me sec %, twp 81
south, of range 10 west
He names the following witnesses 20 prove
MS continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz:
Aaron Defenbaueh, loser b A Roger, IA b
Office. Kansas.
Also Aaron Defenbaugh, l2S6s, for tho
e-W Sc y. Sc s-w sec "a. ne NV y, NV
He names the following witnesses 20 prove
bis continuous residence upon and culttva-
ton Of said land, viz:
.Joscph Roger. Ed 3 Keneaiia, n ID How.
Ell, Isaiah o Conner, ali OF Sun City postofsce.
zossc w.R. BaowxLnE. Rsylster.